What an awesome episode.
I my feeling towards Rin went from 'Aww, poor Rin', to 'What a douche'.

My sister and I were wondering/hoping if they'll meet in the relay. If so it would be good if Haru good whoop his ass, even it out a bit. Or maybe someone will drop out and a position will open for Haru.

Also, how on earth did I miss that last image. It has so much win, I love their Captain. He's very spunky

Rin was such a poor sportsman there, he just rubbed it in his face! And you can see from the flashbacks that when Haru beat Rin he didn't behave that way at all! So what possible justification does he have to behave like that?

And in a side note, in swimming when they take the times for those who'll go through to the next round it's the best 8 from all the heats for that event. And yes, in swimming it often comes down to hundredths and even thousandths of a second between who wins, loses or goes through to the next round. That's why they have those special electronic touch panels on the ends of the pool (incidentally, most competition pools are actually built a little bit longer in order to accommodate the touch panels)

I said this in the episodes comments, but Rin's obsession with beating Haru was unhealthy. Many, many years of this unhealthy obsession "swimming" around inside him led to this inevitable bad-sportsman-like outburst. The right thing to do would have been to shake his hand or not say anything because Rin knows what swimming means to Haru, so any of his words could only have been to hurt Haru.

Rin's personal toils are irrelevant. The moment he shoulders someone else with that childish shit is when he becomes an insufferable antagonist.

Rin is such an asshole and definitely my least favorite character. I do feel a little bit sorry for Rin with the whole story he told about his dad in episode 7, but not enough to forgive him or anything. I mean, Haru has been a good sport the whole time and hasn't done anything wrong, yet Rin keeps treating him like shit.....dude needs a reality check. Just be friends with them dammit!!! lol

Overall I really loved episode 7. I'm really glad that they didn't end it with a cliffhanger because I would have lost my mind if they did lol ^^". I'm also happy to see that they did the big competition race between Haru and Rin halfway threw instead in the last episode because that would have been the obvious and overused way to ending the series. Maybe now the series will be Haru improving his time and speed to him and Rin could have a rematch or something. Plus, there will be more swimming seeing as the first half of the series was them preparing for the first race.

And of course, Makoto is amazing as ever!!!! ^/////^ Can't get enough Makoto!!!!!!!!!! <3 <3 <3